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Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2014 10:18:27 -0800
From: Laura Abbott <lauraa@codeaurora.org>
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To: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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        Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm64: Enable CONFIG_COMPAT also for 64k page size
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On 12/4/2014 7:46 AM, Alexander Graf wrote:
> With binutils 2.25 the default alignment for 32bit arm sections changed to
> have everything 64k aligned. Armv7 binaries built with this binutils version
> run successfully on an arm64 system.
>
> Since effectively there is now the chance to run armv7 code on arm64 even
> with 64k page size, it doesn't make sense to block people from enabling
> CONFIG_COMPAT on those configurations.
>

It's good to see this restriction dropped. Can we put a note somewhere
in the actual Kconfig about the binutils requirement so the requirements
are more obvious?

Thanks,
Laura

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